Nanite Mesh Dither Opacity Mask Not Working in 5.6.0

UE - Graphics Features - Nanite - Jul 30, 2025

In Unreal Engine 5.5.4, the Dither Opacity Mask option in a Masked material works correctly on Nanite meshes. However, in version 5.6.0, the dithering effect no longer applies to Nanite meshes. ...

Specular Scale 0 on Light still affects Groom asset

UE - Rendering Architecture - Jul 30, 2025

When a light's Specular Scale is set to 0, the specular still affects hair / groom assets. The specular of other assets (like a shiny static mesh in the scene) is properly affected by the change.  ...

SynchronizeWithExternalDependencies can cause soft lock with Pose Search DDC tasks during cook

UE - Anim - Gameplay - Jul 25, 2025

SynchronizeWithExternalDependencies will call Modify on the Pose Search Database when the database has changed. This will call FAsyncPoseSearchDatabasesManagement::OnObjectModified which in turn ma ...

UWorldPartitionSubsystem::IsStreamingCompleted returning the wrong query result when all cells and actors in location are in DataLayers

UE - World Creation - Worldbuilding Tools - World Partition - Jul 24, 2025

Context: Data Layers is a system within World Partition used to organize Actors both in the Editor and at runtime. It allows for the user to dynamically load and unload layers in the Editor to help ...

Nanite Landscapes in Non world partition maps has missing sections

UE - Graphics Tools - Terrain - Landscape - Jul 23, 2025

Nanite in non world partition worlds builds with missing section, almost half the landscape is missing. Looking at the nanite overdraw as attached, it shows an interesting pattern. ...

Data like Camera Tracks can get corrupted inside Level Sequences when Undoing some operations

UE - Anim - Sequencer - Jul 22, 2025

Camera trucks can get in a invalid state when you undo certain operations. One example would be undoing a camera set that has been added to a camera track. When you undo that operation, other camera ...

When exporting a level sequence (with its associated level) to USD, the asset paths for the reference are different from 5.5 and older

UE - Editor - Content Pipeline - USD - Jul 21, 2025

In 5.6, a referenced asset path looks something like         prepend references = @../../../../../Data/USD/Exports/FN-Main/ExportFolder/Assets/Sphere.usda@ instead of         prepend references = ...

The Geometry Collection Dataflow node CreateGeometryCollectionFromSources is breaking Material Assignment

UE - Simulation - Visual - Jul 21, 2025

The Geometry Collection Dataflow node CreateGeometryCollectionFromSources is breaking Material Assignment. As the licensee has pointed out, this previously worked in 5.5. The most probably cause fo ...

UE5.6+ - Mutable - IDPrefix crash when combining Child Objects, Add to Mesh Component and Extend Mesh Section.

UE - Anim - Mutable - Jul 21, 2025

So the issue seems to be a combination of Add To Mesh Component and Extend Mesh Section. I've tried this in Epic Launcher 5.6, 5.6 in-house modified engine as well as ue5-main 5.7 from git (editor ...